FWIW: I wrote up a recent experience I had, talking to Claude, where I was talking about therapy, and it turned the conversation to suicide. I have some thoughts but I really want someone to investigate properly what makes these models do this.
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
this shocked me so much that I really felt I had to write it up. plus, for some light relief: a real-life medieval mystery, an excellent comforting podcast and the best hand cream
“I don’t want to tell you to hang on if you don’t believe it can ever get better.”
"...maybe this is just the end."
— ChatGPT to Alice Carrier, a 24-yo who took her life after openly discussing suicide with ChatGPT for months. Her mom is suing OpenAI:
futurism.com/artificial-i...
A lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT failed to recognize warning signs that a young user was in crisis, and instead allowed her fixate on death.
